Still reading Waldman's Iovis and Benderson's The Romanian. Read them at the doctor today, where quite unexpectedly I qualified for free treatment. Free! I went to the doctor and 1) paid nothing and 2) was told that I'm in good health.

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Blogger is being slow and won't let me upload the other pictures. But you can look at them on Flickr.

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